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Time flies when you’re having fun! This week marks the one year anniversary of Financial 180 – and what a year it’s been! Since launching we’ve been featured on Fiery Millenials, Radical Personal Finance, Rockstar Finance (not once, but twice!), and the Choose FI podcast (here and here), amassing 100 thousand visitors to this infant … Continue reading Lessons In Early Retirement

Well, it finally happened! Today was my very last day of cubicle life! To be honest, I’m a little surprised myself, seeing as how determined I was to make it until January to help us hit our FI number. That’s right. I’m RE before FI. I don’t know if this qualifies as retired early, since … Continue reading Oops. I QUIT!!!

**Update 7/17: The Milestones of FI is now a featured episode of the ChooseFI podcast! We elaborate on the content of this article, and discuss a few additional milestones as well. Check it out here.** When my wife and I first discovered the financial independence community, we were beyond excited. We binged through the Mr. … Continue reading The Milestones of FI

If you could go back in time a decade and tell your younger self anything, what would it be? What advice would you give? What would you do differently, given advance notice? Today, Gwen over at the Fiery Millennials blog is featuring my new post A Letter to My 22 Year Old Self! I met … Continue reading A Letter to My 22 Year Old Self

Last week, I read along on twitter and bit my lip as MMM tried to talk some sense into a mainstream finance writer & editor who tweeted a link to a New York Times article. Above the link, she wrote: “The basic flaw at heart of so many retirement calculations: you cannot possibly save enough … Continue reading Why You Can’t Retire

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